by admin | 2 August 2008 | Rights of Way
There is a right to ride a bike or a horse on a right of way only if such a use has been established over a period of at least 20 years. However, you can now also ride a bike or horse wherever rights of access under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 apply, provided...
by admin | 2 August 2008 | Rights of Way
Check if the route meets the conditions to be a right of way. If you think that it does, contact ScotWays to see if it is already recorded. Please send us a copy map, or a sketch map of the area, with the full length of the path marked on it. Even if we do not have...
by admin | 2 August 2008 | Rights of Way
Yes. ScotWays maintains a National Catalogue of Rights of Way. Local authorities also have their own records. In the early 1990s, with the help of Scottish Natural Heritage and local authorities, ScotWays compiled a catalogue of all the known rights of way in Scotland...
by admin | 2 August 2008 | Rights of Way
People will have to depend on these existing rights in circumstances where access rights do not apply or where they are limited in some way. In particular: Many well-used rights of way exist through the curtilages of buildings or other land where access rights do not...
by admin | 2 August 2008 | Rights of Way
Although rights of way are not identified as such on Ordnance Survey maps, they may still be shown as paths or tracks on them. They are not marked as rights of way as there is no definitive map in Scotland – unlike England and Wales – and rights of way can...
by admin | 2 August 2008 | Rights of Way
To be a right of way, a route must meet all the following conditions:· It must join two public places (e.g. public roads or other rights of way); and· It must follow a more or less defined route; and· It must have been used, openly and peaceably, by the general...
